farl

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He poured out his tea, and then began to spread butter on a piece of soda-farl I'd be awful dull walking the streets by myself," she said, watching him as he did so.

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  1. To furl. Hey-day, hey-day, how she kicks and yerks! Down with the main-mast! lay her at hull! Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out! Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 1.
  2. A quarter or third part of a thin circular cake of flour or oatmeal. Also farrel. Then let his wisdom girn and snarl O'er a weel-tostit girdle farle. Fergusson, Poems, II. 78.

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  • He poured out his tea, and then began to spread butter on a piece of soda-farl I'd be awful dull walking the streets by myself," she said, watching him as he did so. —  The Foolish Lovers
  • "What'll you have ... bread or soda-farl She helped herself You know," he said, "I was thinking it would be a good plan for the two of us to go to the theatre to-night The two of us," she exclaimed. —  The Foolish Lovers
  • "What'll you have ... bread or soda-farl?" —  The Foolish Lovers
  • She handed me a farl of oatcake and I went away. —  The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
  • At the head of the staircase they stopped and watched the Princess as she went down the stairs and across the courtyard, her long white robe trailing behind her, with the cup of ruby-red wine in one hand, and the farl of cake in the other. —  Tales From Scottish Ballads
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  1. A contr. of fardle, fardel, pack up; corruptly furdle, contr. furl, the present form: see furl.
  2. Scots, a contr. of fardel, farthel, literally a fourth part: see fardel. For the contraction, cf. farl.
 

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